ANUBIS Plaque.Gold Handpainted +bonus GENUINE artifacts

Features ANUBIS and PHARAOH and Hieroglyphs.

This plaque measures approx 14 x 23 cms, and a depth of approx 1cm.

It is hand made from strong plaster, and is painted in high gloss gold acrylic, with a clear overlay. It has the appearance of opulence in gold !

It has an ancient look and feel to it, but of course it is NOT a genuine artefact, but a modern reproduction.

Note, as the plaque is hand painted, there may be a very slight difference in the paint from the picture shown, which is a stock picture from one I prepared earlier !!

Australian Made, not Chinese import.

You will notice in the other picture some old beads...

These are GENUINE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE BEADS! They are around 2600 years old (circa 600BC)

I will select several items from each pile (up to 6 pieces), and these will be INCLUDED with the winning bidder. and will also include a business card sized info tag, and a signed Certificate Of Authenticity card.

So, you will have the best of both worlds...a stunning modern hand made reproduction of an ancient Egyptian tomb relief, and a couple (2) of AUTHENTIC ARTEFACTS from the actual time the Pharaohs were ruling Egypt !!!

Below is some information about the Plaque, and the Faience Beads...best of luck bidding to all interested.

Faience beads

 were very popular during the times of ancient Egypt, and are thought to be first made some 5,500 years ago.  They are found in the ruins / and diggings of many archaeological sites. These have been collected from old diggings in the Asasif area at Deir el Bahri.

Faience is a man made substance, and is not glass, but was sintered to with a core of quartz particles. Over the core, is a thin layer of glass to give it a glaze. The tubed beads were most probably fashioned around straws to achieve the shape and size. Over time, much faience has lost its glaze being buried in the hot sands and earth...typically in blue and green, and reddish browns shades, it was used in broad collars  and mummy-nets ( using hundreds to thousands of these tube style beads) for the dead, but also was used by the living.

Several necklaces were found with coloured faience in the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

The Plaque,

I believe is section of a bigger wall relief, it shows the Pharaoh facing Anubis (god of the mummification ) being welcomed into the afterlife. This is a very typical scene around the 18th dynasty. I can not accurately determine at this stage who the actual pharaoh is ( the cartouche has "Re" -god,"hpr"- the scarab, and the letter "n" I believe, so the pharaoh should be something like "nehperare"...the trouble is the kings had about 5 different names......, but I can read some heiroglyphs...the words Osiris, Anubis  are there, and it speaks of "foreign land", and I can see the word "foremost" or "in front of". I guess the main thing is that the heiroglyphs ARE proper, and not just gobblegook that appears on many ancient Egyptian reproductions.

Happy to answer any questions you may have.